Projects

New Hire Belonging

New hires lacked a visceral and consistent understanding of cultural norms and practices.
Pre-hire efforts over-indexed on administrative tasks, with little attention given to early education on culture & values.
Managers lacked ownership, resulting in limited or inconsistent support of new hires.

Design an experience that engages and immerses new hires by

Leaders lacked the tools to deliver greater value to clients.
An inability to lead teams through change was resulting in reduced levels of innovation.
Leaders were not consistently coaching individuals and teams to achieve better business results.

Enable leaders to foster a culture of innovation and high performance by

Laying the foundation for a holistic learning & development strategy.
Conceptualizing leadership development initiatives and programming, incorporating best-in-class approaches from world-class organizations.
Developing an implementation guide to enable the client to execute a mutli-year roadmap.

Staff lacked clarity on which career opportunities were available, and how to pursue them.
A persistent mindset that careers follow a linear path, and that ‘success’ is only defined as ‘a promotion’.
Managers were ill-equipped to engage in career conversations with their people.

Increase transparency of growth and development opportunities by

Designing a marketing & communications strategy that articulates what it means to ‘own your career’.
Creating tools and resources to help employees learn about intra-department career opportunities.
Launching a training program that prepares manages to engage in productive career conversations.

A newly promoted manager was struggling to build trust with their team
That team did not understand – and was not aligned – with the expectations the manager had of them
As a result, the team (and manager!) were unable to meet quarterly outcomes

Increase manager and team effectiveness by

Conducting interviews with each team member and selected stakeholders to diagnose the root cause of the poor team dynamics
Develop a measurable improvement plan for the manager with a clear set of achievable goals and KPIs
Conduct structured 1:1 mentoring sessions to offer practical advice and guidance to the manager

A team that was aligned and invested in goals and outcomes
An increased understanding of what new manager pitfalls are, and how to avoid them
Increased manager effectiveness as a result of growth in leadership behaviors

About HBDI® Whole Brain Thinking

HBDI (Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument) is not a personality or competency test - it's about how our brain processes information and how knowing that, can help us be more intuitive and better at flexing our communication styles.
It differs from other psychometric or personality assessments in that it can tell you how your thinking preferences shift under pressure.
HBDI can recognize how thinking preferences influence interactions between individuals, within teams, and across entire organizations.

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A newly formed team wanted to bond and optimize communications across the team.
As a team that provided a shared service to their organization, they lacked a process whereby they could influence and get buy in.
As a team, they lacked understanding of how our thinking preferences affect the ways in which we communicate and problem solve.

Increase transparency of growth and development opportunities by

Utilizing HBDI to cultivate a common language across the team.
Designing and delivering a highly interactive, in-person team debrief (sample presentation) to unveil and explain assessment results, fostering scenario-based learning.
Proposing a follow-on workshop to deep-dive into how to effectively lead and drive major enterprise change initiatives.

A common language across the team
An authentic understanding of how thinking preferences affect the ways in which we communicate and problem solve
Greater adaptability to the team’s thinking preferences in order to advance individual goals